Blogspot rejects WordPress address in comment
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There are quite a few Google blogs where I cannot sign a comment with my WordPress address. This is what happens:
— I write a comment.
— I choose a profile: WordPress
— I put in my WordPress address: http://espliego.wordpress.com/
— The system shows my address like this: http://espliego.wordpress.com/(WordPress), i.e. including those brackets, and says that this URL includes “caracteres no permitidos”, obliging me to sign in with my Google account which I keep for this purpose.It happened again now here:
http://waldolydeckersjournal.blogspot.com/2010/08/billion-here-billion-there.html#comment-form
and happens in let’s say about 1 out of 15 sites. -
Sign in via Name and URL instead. The WordPress thing is glitchy and Google/Blogspot has no particular vested interest in making it work better.
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one of the main reasons I came to WordPress was the commenting issues at Blogger. I also have the same annoyance using my wordpress link.
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¡Muchas gracias, raincoaster! I had not seen that there was this possibility, and so instead I sometimes wrote as “anonymous”.
I have not yet tried out signing in via name and URL, but it is almost sure to work. However, I find it incredible that Google should intentionally keep this little catch. They have become SO BIG that they have more things than they can successfully advertise.
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I just gave up and started using the login information for my google webmaster account. The Open ID thing is just too flakey.
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@cantueso. I’ve had similar problems using the WordPress profile, so I use the name and URL as Raincoaster has suggested and it works for me. However, I find the whole process of making comments on Blogspot/Google a real pain in the a**e. It makes me less inclined to comment on those blogs.
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@pienbiscuits, I agree about the PITA regarding comments at blogspot. By making it so difficult, they actually discourage comments.
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@ thesacredpath
@ pienbiscuitsI do think that Google is not primarily interested in the comments business. This explains why they do not have their own “recent comments” widget, and the one supplied by a third party keeps rendering code for apostrophes and quotation marks.
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I’m not sure Google even remembers that they have blogger/blogspot. It’s been languishing in same-old same-old since their last big update in 2006 and all that really succeeded in doing was introducing a boat load of XHTML validation errors and warnings that they still have not addressed.
It’s sad really. I think the only reason the keep it around is all the people there run adsense which makes them money.
{shrugs}
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@ thesacredpath: That is a general problem with Google. Once they have developed a product to a certain stage they loose interest in it. Google Gears for example. And Blogger. Google also had a brilliant program that could materialize a little pop-up in the lower right corner of the PC every time a new gmail arrived. That program i no longer compatible with Google Toolbar. Their bookmarks have compatibility problems with their toolbar as well.
It’s like I’ve read out there several times: an awful lot of user loyalty is vacant these days…
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@universal, I agree, and I just found this: http://blogger-status.blogspot.com/ . Seems from reading around over there they’ve made some changes and broke it.
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About a month ago Blogger introduced a great novelty: a template where you can change and decide every little thing: width, colour of the blog, colour of the space “behind” the blog, with of header, fonts, colour of fonts, with of sidebar, number of sidebars….
@ raincoaster
I tried writing in the name and the URL, and it worked.
Besten Dank! -
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@cantueso, that still doesn’t cover up for the fact that a blank blogger blog will have over 350 XHTML validation errors before you ever put up a single post. For all Google’s talk about support for web standards and such, that fact alone makes me question their sincerity.
A fresh coat of paint on a condemned bridge might make it look better, but the bridge is still broken.
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